thanks for your quick reply!

This is the map I am playing on axisandallies.org/p/axis-allies-spring-1942-article-series-part-5-strategy/wpid1297-axis-allies-1942-0220-jpg but we have no R&d
So I think I posted on the wrong forum? If so sorry (so many versions, it’s kind of confusing, especially for reading strategies -_-')

So if I understand correctly, no planes can do “kamikaze” ? Even bombers? The US actually bombed japan without any plans to return home, but hey the infantery couldn’t shoot planes either so!
We allowed planes to attack and crashed on land on both our games (sometimes its a very good exchange like the US did)

If this is not allowed then I guess my transports would be safe

I also heard about a “revised” rules where the axis can put an additional 8 or 9 IPC on the map wherever they want at turn 1 to even things out since it’s hard for them to win the long-term war. (but didn’t find much on it)

anyway thanks for the info !

Ps: It’d be awesome if someone can move the thread to the right game, sorry again about that!

I played my second game of axis & allies 1942 as japan (not the 2nd edition I think because there is no R&D). I’m a big fan of strategy games so I’m quite interested in getting better at this one.

On J1 I bought 1 transport, 1 destroyers and infantery. I then:

• sent pretty much everything I had at sea to do pearl harbor (the island at sea, not the actual US west coast) and won without taking any damage.
• I tried to take china but failed (I should have added the east india infantery and 1 more fighter with my attack I believe)

It resulted in : most of my fleet couldn’t move after the attack to go defend my transports. The US suicided its 2 fighters from US-west and the one from china to kill my 3 transports next to japan (they were placed in both sea zones ) since nothing were left defending beside my newly bought destroyer (it got destroyed too).
This move basically meant I couldnt do much for J2 beside building transports back and lost us the game.

Can’t the island of japan defend its 2 sea zones ? I thought so -_-. Should I have left ships there ? I really thought the units on an island defended the sea zone next to it, but I was told they count as seperate zones.

What should I do ?
Next time I’ll try to destroy china’s fighter so I would be safe from a “suicide attack” from Us-west on the sea-zone left of japan with my transports.
UK, Russia and USA concentrated all their effort to take down germany and I was helpless to help

btw, my ally, germany played way too passive on G1 and didn’t make many attacks while the UK and US didn’t care about india or africa and kept building their fleet to invade (which they did successfully on UK2 and US2) By turn 4 it was over. (even though I suicided my fighter to moscow with a tank and took it over on J3, germany lost berlin at UK4)